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A.Regular-Person

April 12, 2010 at 8:04 pm

1st COMMENT:No one left a comment. That’s bull. This is one of the greatest movies i ever saw. Once i saw it i needed to see the second one and the third after that. The First one was threw the roof good, and many of the characters i will remember. The second one was good too, but not as good as the first. The last was alright, and at least they finished off with a trilogy, but i think i could’ve been alright with just two.

I’ve seen the top 30 movies and this movie is one my favorites too, and the idea of time travel is great to think about. And changing the past to benefit your future, that’s awesome. NO MORE BULLIES.

Awesome vid james =). I’ve been a fan for quite some time now, but I just barely got around to making an account. anyway, just thought i’d say, the mall from back to the future (twin pines/lone pine mall) is called Puente Hills Mall. I live about 15 minutes from there! would have been pretty cool to have seen you there while you were out here lol.

I watched a Doc. not to long ago that said they never planned on making three and the flying car at the end was just a gag. At the test screenings people were pissed i guess, so finally they added the “To be Continued” glad they did.

This is THE MOVIE we all talked about on the way to elementary school. We all pretended we were Marty and Doc and we had to get the DeLorean– our bicycles, or matchbox cars, or micromachines– up to 88 mph, and we all did it humming the tune to ourselves. Earth Angel? Forget about it. Awesome. When I was 8, this movie was the shit, the cheese. Now I’m 28, and it’s still the fucking cheese. Chuck Berry, fuck yeah. I used to take calculators and enter 1 + 1 on them, then I would tap equals. This would make the numbers climb one by one just like the red-LED gauge on the dashboard of the DeLorean. The numbers would go up and up and I would hum the tune, it was thrilling. Not all calculators would emulate this, and when they didn’t it would piss me off. Cimbing the clock tower, tiptoeing out there, the gargoyles, I love it. The friendship between the Doc and Marty is perfect, it’s a buddy movie told throughout time. Greatness. The movie is perfect. It’s dramatic, and funny, and brilliant, and most of all, it’s memorable. This movie takes me back, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love it.

Quick note: At the end of the movie, the alarm clock goes off on the dash and Marty is supposed to gun it to catch up with the bolt of lightning. He doesn’t take off immediately, and it’s nerveracking. You think he’s going to miss it, because you know the Docs calculations are spot fucking on. Or are they? Because the alarm goes off and a full 20 seconds go by and he doesn’t leave. Does this mean the Docs calculations are off, or is movie magic. Or perhaps the Doc took this into account when he designed this famous weather testing experiment. Either way, it’s fucking breath taking ass hell, and I love it.

“What happens to us in the future? Do we become assholes or something?”

OMG well said my friend…Im just so glad that there are people out there who feel the same way towards this movie as I do. I mean as soon as i hear that intro..i tend to get a lil teary eyed..BTTF 2′s intro is better because it actually plays the theme music and flying through the clouds only makes it better Oh and at the end of the first movie I always wondered how Marty made it in just in time..the alarm went off and he was supposed to floor it, but he couldn’t and wasted a good 15 seconds or so..yeah could Doc’s calculations actually have been off?? That would be a big HELL NO!! This movie will forever be in my heart

I like how you skip over the scene where Marty bashes his head on the road. Makes me cringe every time. I’d like to know how they did it if not for real. Maybe it’s why MJ Fox has Parkinson’s. …. Probably not. That’s probably the plutonium exposure.

I have seen many great films in my life but no other will ever equal the attachment I have to Back To The Future, this film was my childhood and it has been with me for over 20 years.
Thanks James, I admire your work and I’m glad to see thay we share the same appreciation for this film and trilogy.

Man, I’ve read some of the comments here and had to post my own. First off, great look back as always.

This movie seriously shaped my childhood. I first caught it on one of those “HBO previews” on basic cable in probably around 1990-91 or so and as a child, got hooked. This was even before I feel in love with Star Wars or anything else. You pinned it perfectly in the beginning, it’s a little bit of everything and a shitload of awesome. Now as we’re getting older, the movies themselves are their own slice of nostalgia.

I remember as a child going to Universal Studios in FL and being like a pig in shit at the BTTF ride. Shame it closed down, but I’m sure it became rather dated. Somewhere I have the trilogy on VHS with a “secrets” bonus VHS hosted by Kirk Cameron of all people. The ending teased us with a possible BTTF IV, which we knew would never happen.

If I’m sitting at home with the TV on channel surfing, I’ll always watch BTTF if it’s on. More than a movie, it reminds me of being a kid myself. Surrounded by VHS recordings of my favorite music videos, Beavis and Butthead, and taped episodes of MTV oddities. Nostalgia FTW.

Been my all time favorite movie since it came out when I was a kid. It’s so palpable; particularly with the suspense, at the end. And at it’s heart beats one of mankind’s greatest virtues– salvation through desperate jerry-rigging.

Love these movies so much that when I rescued my 2 newest ferrets, which were name Marty and Marley, I changed Marley’s name to Doc Brown. The smaller of the two is Marty and the bigger one with more white coloring on his head is Doc Brown.

30 Years of Back to the Future!
I thank Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, Steven Spielberg, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd and the rest of the cast and crew of this iconic masterpiece of adventure, comedy and science! Love it to this day!